But it is hard to see the profit for an officeseeker in questioning the intelligence of the electorate.
Following the questioning, American intelligence officials said the two scientists did not appear to have passed information to Mr. bin Laden about nuclear weapons technology.
There was the case of the mohawked Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella, who was expelled by his country's Olympic committee after expressing hostility to South Koreans and questioning their intelligence on Twitter.
"They humiliated me, and Arteaga treated me really badly, questioning my intelligence and telling me I should stop studying philosophy and take up theater, and that I should listen more closely to Karadima," Mr. Murillo said.
Hirst argued in his formal response to the allegations that he was not threatening McDougall in the tweet but was merely questioning his intelligence, and he didn't realise McDougall was a student at Deakin at the time.
Mr. Novak's column appeared a week after Ms. Plame's husband, the former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, wrote an Op-Ed article in The New York Times questioning the intelligence on which Mr. Bush asserted that Iraq had tried to buy uranium ore in Africa.
Utah Coach Larry Krystkowiak is fond of questioning his intelligence.
One Twitter user accused Ruiz of questioning viewers' intelligence.
